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Here’s your weekly roundup of SQL Server Blog Posts, News and Techie Stuff. Enjoy!
SQL Server Links
- Why You Can’t Trust sysdepends – Sneaky stuff here revealed before your eyes by Thom LaRock.
- SQL SERVER – Automated Type Conversion using Expressor Studio – An interesting discussion with Pinal Dave revealing his DB Developer side.
- More considerations for the clustering key – the clustered index debate continues! – Continuing her epic campaign, Kimberly Trip discusses some of the often overlooked internals considerations to Clustered Indexes.
- SQL Internals Viewer – Here’s a brief look at this cool tool.
- An XEvent a Day (1/31) – An Overview of Extended Events – Jumping on the “post a day for a month” bandwagon, Jonathan Kehayias tackles the subject of Extended Events. This should be very good!
- The Top-Five Most Valuable Development Team Positions – Never one to shy away from controversy, Buck Woody clears up just how important a Developer you are in the grand scheme of things.
- Get Going on Powershell – A excellent resource reference shared here courtesy of Jason Crider.
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer – Walking us through the BPA it’s Brad McGehee. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to meet Brad at SQLBits earlier in the year. Be sure to add his work to your Feed Reader!
- Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On – A handy little T-SQL snippet here.
- HOW IT WORKS: IO Affinity Mask – Should I Use It? – Brilliant post from the CSS SQL Server Engineers that clearly discusses this often misunderstood SQL Server configuration setting.
- Stop Tuning Your Queries – That’s right Brent Ozar is telling us to stop tuning our queries…. well sort of.
UK SQL Server Upcoming Events
London: SQLFAQ 2010 Festive Soirée (Buffet & Dance) – Friday 17th December
- This should be quite simply, brilliant.
UK SQL Server Usergroups
- LEEDS – Wed 8 Dec – Tony Rogerson and Neil Hambly explores indexed views and computed columns.
- MANCHESTER – Thu 9 Dec – User group evening – Agenda to be confirmed.
- EDINBURGH – Thu 9 Dec – SQL Server Internals (Tony Rogerson); SQL Server 2008 R2 :: a X factor for DBA’s life (Satya Jayanty)
- LEEDS – Wed 19 Jan – Chris Burns and the Resource Governor and Policy Based Management with Chris Testa-O’Neill
Keeping up with PASS – Useful links for keeping up with all the PASS community events, collated by BradMcGehee.
Misc Technology Posts
That’s it for this week. What was your favourite post? If I’ve missed anything that you think deserves a mention then be sure to let me know! You can leave your comments below, send me an email and find me on Twitter(@JohnSansom).
